Get ready for Friday’s ride! Some highlights of the ride to get you pumped:

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A great mix of scenery, roads, people and a smooth 24 (feels like 16-18) mile ride.

Among the best start, regroups and ending points we’ve ever had!

Located near common major work areas! Bike to work!

Lots of restaurants nearby to eat before the ride, plentiful parking nearby for $2.

Additionally, by popular request some BIRDs will be wandering around the ride with donation cans just like the one pictured here. If you want to help make this ride sustainable, please donate (cash only, sorry) whatever you can.

Now, let’s give you the location and route – which means it’s time to review How We Ride!

If you follow these eight rules, Bike Party will be a safe and a positive place for riders, drivers, pedestrians, and the community.

Stay in the right lane when possible. NEVER ride the sidewalk. NEVER ride against oncoming traffic.

Pick up your trash, leave nothing behind.

Stop at red lights.

Ride straight, ride predictability.

Roll past conflict.

Leave no one behind.

Ride sober! It’s illegal and dangerous to ride a bicycle inebriated.

Make some noise! (We need your help to remind those who aren’t following the rules!)

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I am going to echo Gilda. What happened to sj bike party. So now I am forced to drive to the start with a heavy carbon footprint because I can’t take a public transportation system equipped to handle a large number of bikes? What is with the secret regroup and ending location? I am bringing a group of kids…you are creating a logistical nightmare for me and what am I supposed to tell their parents? C’mon folks, you are ruining a wonderful event for many of us.

Hi Bike Party organizers,
Can’t do a bike party so far away from Downtown. Life is too short to start at 101 and Great America.
This month’s ride should be re-named SantaClara/MountainView bike ride.
I’ll be bike riding in Downtown SJ without you tomorrow night.
Hope you get the route corrected in October. I’d love to ride again with SJbikeparty.
Mark

folks, it’s not that far away… if you can join one of the “Ride to Bike Party!!!” group rides leaving from downtown SJ or downtown Campbell. Riding with a group makes it sooo much easier.

the “turn by turn directions” show where we’re wanting you to park. you’ll be directed to where the “start” location is… or just follow the crowd of riders… we hope to have something special at the end of this ride too!

yeah, i hear the complaints about the distance – i’m looking at a VERY long day of riding for myself as well.

a few things that might help explain the logic here:

1 – if you can ride 20mi on a Bike Party ride, you can ride another few miles to/from the start. yeah, you’ll burn some more calories, but it’s do-able.

2 – if you don’t like the planning that’s happening, participate in the process. Bike Party is open to new volunteers every month. the next volunteer meeting will be Wednesday, October 7th – mark your calendars.

3 – a huge reason for mixing up the routes is that we wear out our welcome very quickly in any one area. YOU can help solve this problem by a) becoming a BIRD to keep our ride clean and well-behaved, and b) recruiting your friends to become BIRDs with you – it’s more fun that way.

4 – please remember that volunteers have worked VERY hard to develop what’s here. you might not think it’s the best, but someone else who shares your passion for Bike Party spent hours and hours working on these questions to arrive at this solution. if you want to try to make it better, PLEASE get involved and volunteer.

this is no longer san jose bike party it is santa clara county bike party and a lot of ppl will not be able to attend, ruined fro the ppl that always attened, whats up, you don’t want ppl to have an enjoyable ride

The secret regroup #3 location is, if it’s where we visited on the first test ride, a truely awesome place to stop. You’ll LOVE it!

The specific start and stop locations will be easy to identify when you’re in the area. Don’t worry about it. Get there a little early.

If you’d like, consider the ride to be starting at 6:30 in downtown San Jose at the pre-ride start location. If the milage has got you stressed, take the light rail home from Tasman. Look for solutions, everybody, it’s a PARTY!!!

All you folks complaining about the start and the route, please — PLEASE — be open to a little change.

I think the effort to expand to the sorrounding communities is wise. We will still remain SJBP, but we can reach out to our bicycling brethren in close by communites.
It is a logical & natural expansion.
It is such a wonderful idea to expand the beauty of Bike Party.
You shouldn’t just like… you should LOVE it…..
Embrace this change my brethren.
It can only make us so much stronger!
Please open your minds and your hearts. Instead of thinking just of yourself — try to see the big picture and let’s be one big and happy South Bay bicycling family!
Now cliose your eyes and imagine…
Can’t ya just feel the beauty and the power of — IT ~
LETS GO!!!! BIKE PARTY FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome route this time. I am glad its exploring uncharted territory!! 3 Cheers to the volunteers, the organizers, and all the AWESOME BIRDS!!!

I know this is far for some people, but you can drive to the ride park at Mission College and you will be just fine for the ending point. Both the start location and the end location are very close to each other.

Say what? That’s right, boys and girls. Time to shake your groove
thing at Hellyer Velodrome next Friday, September 18. Thanks to the
sponsorship of San Jose Bicycle Club and the helpful stewardship of
SJBC President Jon Racine, it’s disco all night with no brakes
allowed.

Resident DJ, Chris “my fro is out of control” Panella will be keeping
the crowd in the mood as racers race, spectators spectate and everyone
enjoys great food, great drink and a great big blast from 30+ years
past. So, dust off those boxes from the attic, wash last week’s digs,
or swing by the closet of any 45+ Masters racer and getcherself some
proper threads.

What? You say you blocked the memories of what you wore in the 70s
and burned the photographic evidence? Or, worse! You weren’t born
yet?

Never fear! Jon Racine, President of SJBC is here! His simple how-to
list gives you every step you need to do the locomotion right back to
the 70s. Thanks, Jon!

Step 1 – HAIR: Wear it. Lots of it. Afros, shags and mustaches for
the men. For the ladies, long and straight or permed and fried. And,
what hot look screams “My hair is so 70s!” for everyone? Feathered
wings. Bring your own comb.

Step 2 – MAKEUP: Make that body shimy and shine. Dip yourself in
glitter, stick on your longest eyelashes, and spackle on a heavy
pancake of blue-not-found-in-nature eyeshadow. Remember: Eyeliner is
your friend.

hey biketime, we don’t plan to leave till 8:20pm, first regroup is at the Mt View CalTrain station, that has a VTA light rail too!

Do any express trains workout for you better?
Don’t ride to Mission College – ride over 101 and take the first right – that leads you to Freedom Circle and the start.
approx address if you have GPS:
3955 Freedom Circle
Santa Clara, CA. 95054

I was really looking forward to this but finding out it is so far away is a bummer. I think the orginizers are trying to weed out the bad apples, but in the process are weeding out the good people too. Anyways, I hope for the sake of all the people that are going to drive/caltrain out that far that you don’t have cops harassing everybody for nonsensical reasons like last time.